Updated at 11:23 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 8
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday rejected an amendment to the joint city-county comprehensive plan that now will complicate how a major development project along the South Lawrence Trafficway can move forward.
On Wednesday, the County Commission voted 2-1 against the amendment to Plan 2040, which would have revised its land use map and its residential and open ...
While Bishop Seabury students in Sonja Czarnecki’s Global Studies class were recently learning about the United States' economic ties with China, they got to hear from a Kansas politician who has some very pointed opinions on the subject — and with whom many of them might not agree: Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach.
The potential clash of strongly held views was by design, as Czarnecki has made it a ...
Douglas County leaders will soon consider a new process for enforcing the county's animal code — specifically, for handling cases where people with animals that are dangerous or a nuisance have repeatedly failed to comply with the rules.
At their meeting on Wednesday, county commissioners will consider implementing an administrative hearing process for animal code violations to either enforce citations or ...
Some employees in the Lawrence school district will soon be equipped with high-tech badges that can call for help in a variety of situations — from a fight between students to a threat requiring a school lockdown — with just a few clicks of a button.
The badges are part of a system called CrisisAlert, which is described on service provider Centegix's website as a "mobile panic button." It's already in use ...
The day 15-year-old Brianna Higgins was fatally shot, she woke up full of energy — and wanted to make sure her family knew it.
Brianna's older sister, Iona Wakole, recalls that morning, Jan. 19, when the rest of the household awoke to Brianna belting out one of her favorite songs by R&B artist Keyshia Cole.
"She woke the whole house up, and I started singing with her from downstairs," Wakole said. ...
Topeka — Lawrence's ban on single-use plastic bags will lead to a confusing “patchwork of regulations” that business owners in Kansas would have to navigate, and that is why such local bans should be prohibited by state law, according to proponents of a bill in the Kansas Legislature.
During a Senate committee hearing Tuesday at the Statehouse, lawmakers heard about the pros and cons of the proposed ...
